When 1.3 billion people take a collective holiday to return to their ancestral villages for the Qingming (tomb-sweeping) Festival, this immense feat of migration really does test the limits of China’s public transport and tourist facilities—as well as everyone’s patience and the (already contested) notion of personal space.Aside from the traditional veneration of family graves by burning paper money and laying wreaths at their tombs, millions of Chinese also experienced the modern elements of this festival: shoulder-jostling, horn-honking, queuing for hours, and enough second-hand smoke inhalation to re-apply that varnish of tar your lungs only just got rid of after Spring festival.Now that it’s over for another year, we’ve compiled some of the best photos illustrating the mayhem of Qingming festival—which will help you relive the carnage if you ventured out this long weekend, or vindicate your decision to stay indoors and spurn human company.By Liam Bourke